The coaching career of Joe Gibbs began in 1964 at San Diego State, where he was their offensive line coach before moving to Florida State and USC in the same capacity. Elevating to the running back coach with Arkansas, and then the St. Louis Cardinals, Gibbs ascended to the role of offensive coordinator with Tampa Bay and San Diego under Don “Air” Coryell.

Sports historians have called Walter Camp the "Father of American Football,"; four words that make him worthy of a sports-based hall of fame.

A multi-sport athlete at Yale, Amos Alonzo Stagg became one of the most known coaches in the first half of the 20th century.

Paul Brown was an undersized player even by the standards of the 1920s, but through determination, he became a starting quarterback at the University of Miami of Ohio. Brown would become a high school football coach and arguably the most successful one in Ohio history, winning four National Championships and six State Championships.

In the Big Four of North American sports leagues, there is only one true small market team. That is the Green Bay Packers, and without Curly Lambeau, they would have never existed.

The position of quarterback is always evolving, and the men who excelled in that position eighty years ago show little resemblance to those today. If a bridge from the early years to what a modern quarterback would become, that player is Johnny Unitas.

The 1970s were loaded with the most compelling heavyweights of boxing, and Joe Frazier was among them.

When you think of American auto racing, a few names automatically come to mind, but no name fits it better than Mario Andretti when you think of speed. It just rolls off the tongue.

While she was still at UCLA, Flo-Jo qualified for the 1980 Olympics Moscow in the 100 m, but she did not compete due to the U.S. boycott. At the 1984 L.A. Games, she won the Silver in the 200 m, but it was four years later where she became the American track darling.

The American League had Babe Ruth. The National League had Rogers Hornsby.